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María del Carmen Needham; Cynthia Barron; Francis Yong Chen; Lorran Garrison – Communique, 2024
According to the 2020 U.S. Census, 62.1 million people identify as Hispanic/ Latiné in the United States. Of the 49.6 million students enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools in fall 2022, 14.4 million students identified as Hispanic (National Center for Education Statistics [NCES], 2024a). Factors such as poverty, health issues, and…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Family School Relationship, Student School Relationship, Barriers
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Brown, Martin; Altrichter, Herbert; Shiyan, Igor; Rodríguez Conde, María José; McNamara, Gerry; Herzog-Punzenberger, Barbara; Vorobyeva, Irina; Vangrando, Valentina; Gardezi, Sarah; O'Hara, Joe; Postlbauer, Alexandra; Milyaeva, Daria; Sergeevna, Natalia; Fulterer, Sieglinde; García, Adriana Gamazo; Sánchez, Lourdes – Policy Futures in Education, 2022
Whether voluntary or enforced, increasing patterns of migration have significantly impacted schools by making them linguistically, culturally, religiously and ethnically more diverse than ever before. This increasing diversity requires school leaders to put in place mechanisms to ensure equity of participation for migration background students.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Styles, Cultural Relevance, Cultural Awareness
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Sarid, Ariel; Binhas, Adi – Journal of Educational Administration, 2023
Purpose: This research explores the perceptions and practice of principals in schools integrating migrant and refugee children into the Israeli formal education system. The aim is to offer theoretical and methodological insights to the discourse on educational leadership. Design/methodology/approach: This qualitative (phenomenological) study used…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Immigrants
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Yahya, Raudhah; Wood, Elizabeth Ann – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2017
This article examines play as a conceptual third space that serves as a bridge between home and school discourses. Using sociocultural theories and an interpretivist framework, 19 immigrant mothers and their children in Canada were interviewed about their play experiences at home and in preschools. The findings reveal that children and teachers…
Descriptors: Play, Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Mothers
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Clonan-Roy, Katherine; Gross, Nora; Jacobs, Charlotte – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2021
Drawing on qualitative research with adolescent youth of color, this paper imagines the power and potential of informal youth-driven spaces in schools as sites of emotional safety and rebellion. Calling upon Hochshild's (1979) conceptualization of the social regulation of emotions, we examine the racialized and gendered feeling rules that govern…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Adolescents, Emotional Response, Racial Bias
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Guo-Brennan, Linyuan; Guo-Brennan, Michael – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2021
Schools with dramatically increased immigrant and refugee student populations need a systematic approach and inclusive process to ensure newcomer students, who differ in their backgrounds, languages, identities, frames of reference, prior educational experiences, abilities, interests, and belief systems, have equal opportunities and resources to…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Immigrants, Refugees, Educational Environment
Ruskin, Emily – UnidosUS, 2020
Despite educational gains in recent decades for many Latino students, there are still significant barriers to universal quality education in the U.S.; among these are the stresses of current U.S. immigration policy and political discourse, which serve as negative multipliers to pre-existing social, economic, and health inequities. This report…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Barriers, Equal Education, Educational Quality
Marchesi, Patricia A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Throughout history, the United States has symbolized a place of opportunity, viewed as a place where achieving a better life is possible. This viewpoint still holds true for Latino immigrants, who currently account for more than half of the country's population growth since 2000. Latino families and students specifically see higher education as a…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Hispanic American Students, Immigrants, Barriers
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Isik-Ercan, Zeynep; Demir-Dagdas, Tuba; Cakmakci, Huzeyfe; Cava-Tadik, Yasemin; Intepe-Tingir, Seyma – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
This paper examines the issues surrounding low-income immigrants in the U.S. and the ways they shape the educational experiences of their young children. Using a multidisciplinary lens including sociology, family studies, education, and mental health, the authors analyse multiple perspectives towards the educational experiences of children in…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Immigrants, Interdisciplinary Approach, Young Children
Fraser, Jane – 1996
Cultural sensitivity is a goal for effective educators in Canada. They must make a clear differentiation between multicultural adults for whom English is a second language, who are pursuing linguistic needs for functioning in the Canadian workplace, and culturally unique First Nation (Native American) students, who have always lived in Canada and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, American Indian Culture